The weekly web ramble (3/29)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

The future of Goodreads, post Amazon purchase

The 2013 RITA award nominees

– Buzzfeed shares 27 delightfully obsolete words

<– AUTHOR TALK

Seanan McGuire on the way her mind works

– Tamora Pierce picks her favorite YA/MG reads of 2012

– Debut author Liz de Jager on the beginnings of her Blackheart Legacy series

– Kristin Cashore on the strangest children’s book she’s ever enjoyed

WEB READS –>

Taken big

– Check out chapters one and two of Taken by Erin Bowman 

Icons small

– Read the first chapter of Icons by Margaret Stohl

Clockwork princess

Cassandra Clare shares a teeny pictorial snippet from The Bane Chronicles

The Gathering

– Read The New Guy, a Gathering prequel short story by Kelley Armstrong